Back From Europe!
Starla and I in Eze, France
We just got back from our trip to France and Italy. We had a really really good time and had mostly amazing weather the whole time. Paris is as lovely as ever and really is a place I could see myself living. We happened to be there the same weekend as Nuit Blanche which is an amazing annual event where artists take over a bunch of landmarks around the city with light based installations. The whole city seems to come out for this and it lasts all night long. It is very cool and I would recommend trying to see it. Nice and the Côte d’Azur was very beautiful with amazing water and good food. We stayed there 3 nights and one day went out on a little tour of the region taking in Cannes (boring), Antibes (lively, enticing) St Paul de Vence (beautiful little preserved medieval hillside village), Eze (another beautiful little preserved medieval hillside village) and Monaco. Cinque Terre was one of the most stunning places I have ever been and hiking from town to town on the rocky Mediterranean coast is an amazing life experience. We caught 4 of the 5 towns only missing Corniglia. Pisa has a famous leaning tower, a beautiful accompanying church and not a ton else. We were supposed to only stay the night to be close to the airport but due to a flight problem we ended up being there two days. It is only an hour from Florence and it kind of killed me to be so close to such and amazing place but not be able to go to it.
Like usual I got really into taking photographs and ended up with about 1700 of them which i went through every night and edited down to about 350 photos which are up on my flickr account, which you can see here.